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Slate Magazine published something remarkable this week - and I'm not referring to the drivel about you being evil for wanting to give your kid the best education available. No, in this case, remarkable is a good thing.

In 1930, the unemployment rate among African Americans was lower than it was for whites. That's right, at the height of the Great Depression, blacks were more likely to be employed than whites. 1930 was also the last year that we saw that happen.

Dear FreedomWorks member,As one of our millions of FreedomWorks members nationwide, I urge you to contact your Representative in Congress and tell them to support the Protecting American Taxpayers and Homeowners (PATH) Act, H.R. 2767. Introduced by Reps. Scott Garrett (R-NJ) and Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), the PATH Act is a major step towards freeing the housing and financial markets from the regulations and incentives that led to the financial meltdown of 2008.

In most states, education is the most expensive item in the budget. However, there is frequently some question on exactly how much is being spent and on what. The Cato Institute dug in to see what they could find out about transparency in educational spending around America.

In the fight to repeal Obamacare, establishment Republicans and the leftist media are teaming up to attack those urging that Obamacare be fully defunded. They say the conservatarian grassroots and Tea Party legions are being misled, because the task is impossible.

We all remember the climate crisis a couple of years ago - leaked emails from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University showed that climate scientists conspired to manipulate some data, suppress some data, and only promote the results that supported the theory of anthropogenic global warming.

Recently, I reported on the ambiguous rules and potential conflicts of interest involved in the voluntary forest certification programs that are being encouraged by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).